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A series of voicemails imploring the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler to
“please come home” were read out at the Old Bailey yesterday. The anguished
messages, at/ the heart of the alleged phone hacking conspiracy, were not
picked up by the murdered 13-year-old but were intercepted instead by
journalists at the News of the World after Milly went missing in 2002.

One caller, identified only as David, begged Milly to “please come home”,
several days after she vanished while walking back from school in Surrey in
late March. He added: “I miss you so much.”